Techniques for Lighting, Shooting and Image Editing

Includes: 
Types of digital cameras and their advantages for professionals. 
The creative and financial advantages of going digital. 
Tips for supplying your images to clients. 
Color balancing your lights and digital camera. 
Ideas for artistic digital imaging. 
How to preview images accurately on your monitor. 
Exposure techniques for digital imaging-including how to use a digital densitometer.
Techniques for removing colorcasts.
Digital light painting.

This book provides photographers skilled in basic digital imaging with the techniques required to take their images to the next level. Beginning with digital capture, Dave. Montizambert'" addresses the latest advances in technology, then provides techniques for color balancing your camera, exposure, and monitor calibration. Next, color and professional color printing are discussed; with techniques for making your images look their best in print. Using Adobe Photoshop, Montizambert also provides step-by-step techniques for color and contrast control, advanced sharpening, and applying professional artistic techniques. Finally, you'll learn how the digital equivalent of light painting can give you complete control of your images!